T HOMAS F. T ORRANCE Introduction This reference article is included in the aether compilation of articles fora number of reasons. Firstly, it was the understanding of Clerk Maxwell that there existed some form of luminiferous medium which bore the propagation of the electromagnetic field. Secondly, the nature of the electromagnetic field itself is the closest specification that man has made in relation to the nature of light - the medium of his highest physical sense - that of vision. Thirdly, the summation by Albert Einstein of the work of Clerk Maxwell on the nature of the electromagnetic field is of outstanding resource. Ina separate article, entitled Aether and the Theory of Relativity, there maybe found a more direct discussion concerning the aether by Albert Einstein. The value of the article found below is its addressing the nature of light, and the scientific specifications thereof. I am indebted to the the publishers of James Clerk Maxwell - A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field - and in particular to its editor, Torrance, who has authored the introduction to this book, and thus the first of the two references which are produced below. They are presented hereon a not-for- profit basis, and rather in an effort to provide information for those who know themselves as the students of life. There is currently one further resource which relates to the work of James Clerk Maxwell. It is the outline of a book which he had published in 1882 entitled Matter And Motion. All the best for now, Pete Brown Southern Autumn of 97 James Clerk Maxwell A Dynamic Theory of the Electromagnetic Field Introduced and edited by T.F. Torrance (1982) Three observations may now be offered in concluding this Introduction.
